WILLIAN. SOMERSET MAUGHAM 

 

  It's asking a great deal that things should appeal to your reason as well as your sense of the aesthetic.[Of Human Bondage]

 She had a pretty gift for quotation, which is a serviceable substitute for wit.

We have long passed the Victorian era, when asterisks were followed after a certain interval by a baby.  

 There are two good things in life, freedom of thought and freedom of action.   

 Only a mediocre man is always at his best.

No affectation of peculiarity can conceal a commonplace mind.

 Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit

 Dying is a very dull, dreary affair. And my advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.

 

 

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